Adam Smith Quotes

In England, and in all Roman Catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary.

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• I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Couple
  • Places
  • Australia

• I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • Growing
  • Mom
  • Horror

• For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Movie
  • Film
  • Body

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • High
  • Like
  • Looks

• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

  Jackie Kennedy
  • Children
  • Think
  • Parenting

• The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Dream
  • Ugly
  • Blonde

• How do you grow up in the shadow of a guy - I want to talk about the movie in a second - but how do you grow up in the shadow of a guy who really is a legend in his own time?

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Movie

• 'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Nice
  • Tennis
  • Saying

• I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • New
  • New York
  • Club

• I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Love
  • Together
  • Best

• The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Country
  • Home
  • Plants

• I accomplished what I set out to do. I wanted the whole cookie, and I got it. Now I want to spend more time with my children - make sure they don't go through what I did.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Time
  • Children
  • Want

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• You need to get in studio; we're excited about the Pay 1 opportunity with Disney because those movies are not just movies. They're amazing family content that get flexed over and over again, forms great loyalty with our subscribers, and it's a real trust brand for parents as well.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• I'm a huge Sia fan. I love Sia, I have just about all of her stuff.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Love
  • Stuff
  • Fan

• There is always more in one of Ramanujan's formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Work
  • Science
  • Deep

• The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heaven
  • Guiding
  • Restraining

• At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or a deadly venom. Viruses are indeed exquisitely deadly, but they have provided the world with some of its most important innovations. Creation and destruction join together once more.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Important
  • Long
  • Innovation

• The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Soul
  • Dream
  • Reality

• It is illegal for the CIA to spy on Americans and an affront to our Republic to spy on the Senate.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Senate
  • Republic
  • Spy

• In England, and in all Roman Catholic countries, the lottery of the church is in reality much more advantageous than is necessary.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Reality
  • Church
  • Catholic